The portion between La Salle-Peru and Bloomington-Normal began in 1987. The first leg of I-39 from Rockford to Rochelle opened in 1984. Ten year later, in 1979, work began on the interstate highway. In 1969, the Illinois legislation started prompting the need for a highway in this corridor. During the calendar year of 1962, there were 531 crashes along U.S. In 1956 legislation provided $25 billion in funding, but the project was deemed a low priority. An initial request was for a north-south highway from South Beloit, Wisconsin to Salem, Illinois. Plans for I-39 date back to 1945 when the United States began planning the first 40,000 mile interstate system. 51 to the Wisconsin Line north of Rockford. I-39 starts at I-55 and runs north along U.S. This is a north-south route, running in North-Central Illinois. Interstate 39 is one of the newer interstates in Illinois. I've seen DNE signs painted on the reverse of STOP signs, but it's pretty strange to cut a separate sign to the same shape.Interstate 39, Illinois Roads of the Mid-South & West > Highways of the State of Illinois > Interstate 39, Illinois More cute frontage road shieldness.Īt the base of the ramp into the rest area, which obviously has a stop sign on the other side. The road out of the rest area splits onto I-94 WB/US 41 NB and the Exit 347 ramp this thus connects to the second photo above as a different possible sign progression. of Redundancy Dept., ALT US 41/I-94 is in fact just the frontage road, 120th Ave. Instead, for some really odd reason, the frontage road is signed. And then it's not even signed at the top of the exit. Cardinal directions don't matter all that much on these signs they're better placed at the surface where people actually make that choice. WisDOT really means business with those excessive pavement markings, intended to visually narrow the lanes to get people to slow down that much more.ĭestinations would be helpful. Westbound at the Airport Freeway, which combines with US 45 (the also-unimaginatively named Zoo Freeway) to make a great Marquette Interchange bypass traffic can continue west from 45 there, or follow US 41 further north to parallel I-43 up to Green Bay. Blame AASHTO for trying to shoehorn I-94 across to Michigan instead of numbering that highway I-92 and leaving them discontinuous.Īll remaining photos are courtesy Doug Kerr. There will be decorative gantries to hold signs that still don't tell you which direction you're going, but I'm resigned to accept the best I can get in that regard. You know it's a substantial widening when both sides of the road fit into one side of the future road. Maybe because Milwaukeeans know that Chicago's to the south, so using the word "South" would mislead them to take the wrong fork at the interchange? Isn't that what the word "Chicago" is for? (Okay, there's also Racine-Kenosha as a potential destination.) No, don't ask, but is it any wonder that WisDOT accidentally signs I-43 as East on the construction sign? It's also odd that the permanent sign (which is missing a black border on the bottom, but shhh) doesn't give I-43 a direction at all, just a destination. Oh, and by the way, this is also US 41 SB, so make that a third route not even represented at all.Ĭonstruction has shifted from the Marquette south to the Mitchell Interchange where I-94 East heads south and I-43 South heads west. This is a reason I don't like dual-route mile markers. The real issue here is that the direction is tied to I-43, but the mile number is tied to I-94. No, this is all on I-43 South, so the first milemarker is that much more incorrect. Since they're only 500 feet apart, it's easy to discern that something's amiss, namely that I've just switched from North to South somehow. The all-new ramps fly around in all different places than before.īoth of these photos are on I-94 East, but neither mile marker will tell you that. This is why I-94 is down to one lane here to see more construction, continue on I-794, linked below.ĮB in the same place after construction's done. It's under heavy reconstruction to eliminate left ramps and realign everything else. WisDOT-style shields, WIS 26 SB in Johnson Creek, courtesy Doug Kerr.Įastbound through the Marquette Interchange, courtesy Doug Kerr. Wisconsin Roads - I-94/I-43/US 41 I-94, I-43/94, I-94/US 41įor photos of I-94 with I-90 (and I-39), visit the big link at the bottom of this page.
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